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CBS4 Wins Several ‘Best Of Denver’ Awards

DENVER (CBS4) – Westword has honored CBS4 with three selections in this year’s edition of its “Best Of” awards.

The weekly newspaper’s Best Of edition — now in its 28th year — is a whopping 204 pages long and is arguably the most impactful awards list in the city. On pages 19 and 20, in the “People & Places” listings, Channel 4 pops up with these three awards:

Best TV Anchor: Jim Benemann … The paper refers to Benemann’s style with glowing words, saying he “reminds us why newscasts were set up with an anchor desk in the first place.”

Best TV Sportscaster: Vic Lombardi … This isn’t the first time Lombardi has won this award, and we certainly can’t argue with the paper as they say “Lombardi is developing into something of a local faceman for this town’s teams.” They also praise his “effective ‘Vic’s Signature’ commentaries,” which you can view online at CBSDenver.com/Lombardi.

Best Hair on a TV Personality – Female: Karen Leigh … This silly category seems to be quite the popular one for Westword — it shows up in the edition each year and is broken down into a female and a male category (Ed Greene and Gloria Neal are former winners). This time around Karen lands at the top. “Leigh’s luxurious, lustrous locks seem as suited to a beauty-pageant contestant as they do to a news anchor, but viewers have clearly flipped for her long, grown-out flip,” the newspaper wrote. (Visit Karen’s blog.)